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William Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877, English inventor of photographic processes (see photography, still ). A man of enormously versatile intelligence, he invented the "photogenic drawing" process in 1834. From 1841 on he patented his numerous processes for making negatives and positive prints, called calotypes and later talbotypes. His patents threatened to impede the technical progress of the medium and Talbot was forced to release his processes. His relationships with other early photographers and photographic inventors were very bitter. Talbot wrote The Pencil of Nature (1844), one of the first books illustrated with photographs. Interested also in archaeology, he was one of the first to decipher the cuneiform inscriptions at Nineveh.

Bibliography: See studies by A. Jammes (1974) and L. J. Schaaf (2000).

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Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800–77) English scientist. Talbot improved on the work of Daguerre by inventing the first photographic process capable of producing any number of positive prints from an original negative. See also photography

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